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IPN lashes out at Moscow’s attempts to justify Soviet WWII invasion of Poland

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939, by foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov. Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1984-1206-523 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

The Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) has hit out at Russian claims to prevent a “falsification of history” by saying that documents released by Moscow “at best proves the incompetence of the authors of the site, and at worst – their desire to manipulate history”.

Lesser known horror of Stalin’s Great Purge which saw over 100k Poles massacred goes on display in harrowing new exhibition

The Polish Operation orchestrated by NKVD monster Nikolai Yezhov was the largest killing of Poles in history outside of any armed conflict.

The Un-Finnish-Ed Business: a historic village-style community in the heart of Warsaw is teaching the city how to live for tomorrow

In the heart of the city nestles a cluster of Finnish houses that hold a beguiling past and an uncertain future.

Tails From The Underground: cats & vodka in the subterranean depths of Warsaw’s Palace Of Culture

From the outside the palace is as large as it is divisive, but in the tunnels beneath it lies a fascinating mix of the historical and the bizarre.

On this day, 79 years ago, Poland was invaded by the Soviet Union following a secret deal between Stalin and Hitler

Poland was now in a war it had no possibility of winning, trapped between two behemoths. Its forces were overwhelmed by the mechanized modern German army, and Poland had nothing left with which to fight the Soviets, it’s 1,400 km border only being defended by poorly armed border guards.

Incredible story of woman’s escape from Soviet gulag before starting a new life in Iran is turned into moving documentary

Fleeing Stalin’s terror, Maria eventually arrived in Iran, a land which she said was blessed with proper beds and good and plentiful food, two of life’s essentials denied to her by Stalin’s regime.

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